Almost a century ago, museum pioneer John Cotton Dana (1856-1929) was advising museums to reach out to underserved audiences and be of direct and useful service to their communities. As…

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The Gloom of the Museum is a novel written by John Cotton Dana and published in 1917. The story revolves around the protagonist, an art museum director named David Kent…

In this groundbreaking work, Dana challenges traditional notions of what a museum should be and how it should operate. Drawing upon his experience as the director of the Newark Museum…

A Library Primer, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…